They range from pretty major, work-related things (such as how to cope with managing more people in a team) to more minor – but not totally insignificant – lessons, such as not eating cheese before going to bed. No, really. It has taken me nearly 30 years to work out that’s what has been giving me weird dreams all this time.

As we move into 2014, I thought I’d lay out some of the best lessons or tips I’ve taken away from these articles.

Lesson 1: If I want to earn more money, I should have more sex

According to a Cambridge University study, people who have sex four times a week earn 5% more than people who don’t. In fact, those people who don’t apparently bring their “sexlessness” into the office with them, affecting their productivity, motivation and ultimately, their salary.

I can’t help but think this survey was conveniently conducted by a few horny PhD students who wanted to convince the cute scientist girls to sleep with them, but I guess the eventual outcome is pretty good for everyone.

Overly protective, over-friendly and absent bosses are bad and are killing your career with their kindness. They don’t mean to, it’s just they stifle your drive and creativity when they tell you “everything’s fine” (even when it’s not) and they completely ignore a necessary boss-employee barrier by trying to be “one of the gang”.

The government not issuing a stop-work order when the PSI levels hit 400 during the haze attack was what everyone was talking about in June. Although some companies allowed employees to work from home, there was no blanket ruling made for all organisations in Singapore.

Request for masks as a Christmas present this year and keep them locked in a draw until the next haze attack. You’ll be the most popular person in the office after the shops run out of them. Win!

Oh, Amy Cheong. Your remarks about the Singaporean Malay community just went viral, didn’t they?

Cheong, who was NTUC’s assistant director of membership, had to move to Australia to avoid the backlash from comments made on Facebook about Malays, which taught us all a difficult lesson about the dangers of social media for people in positions of power.